Böcker i Oxford Series on Materials Modelling-serien

Technologically important metals and alloys have been strengthened throughout history by a variety of empirical means. The scientific bases of the central mechanisms of such forms of strengthening, developed over the past several decades are presented here in a comprehensive form through mechanistic models and associated experimental results.

Dislocation dynamics simulations are becoming accessible to a wide range of users. This book presents to students and researchers in materials science and mechanical engineering a comprehensive coverage of the physical body of knowledge on which they are based.

There is a continuing growth of interest in the computer simulation of materials at the atomic scale, using a variety of academic and commercial computer programs. Such programs work with very diverse models of the inter-atomic forces. This book explains how such models are constructed, their scientific basis, and the approximations that must be made in deriving them.

The science of materials tells us that every material contains microscopic features that vary at different length scales. This book presents the case of shape-memory alloys, technologically important materials, explaining the link between microstructure and macroscopic properties. It also includes a sample wire of shape memory material.

This book seeks to strengthen the foundations of continuum plasticity theory, emphasizing a unifying perspective grounded in the fundamental notion of material symmetry.